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That's a very solid setup
What's umatrix for?
Thank you! uMatrix is a browser extension that makes it very easy to block any third party requests a website makes by category. For example, if example.com loads fonts from Google that is considered a third party request. Or if it tries to set a Facebook cookie. uMatrix shows a table (or a matrix) of all the request addresses and categories and you can click on them to block/allow them.
You can do the same with ublock :)
http://digdeeper.club/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix Read the update from January 2022
uMatrix is no longer maintained. Please see the link:
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
It doesn't need to be maintained if it still works on the latest update of the browser. Also, uBlock is not a full replacement, if there will be a full replacement that is maintained, I'll gladly switch